CRN Storage News

Kurian told CRN that booming all-flash storage array sales, combined with a software-driving focus on innovation aimed at where customers are moving their IT infrastructures, were a winning combination for NetApp's fiscal 2018.

CEO Charles Giancarlo told CRN after the release of its first fiscal quarter 2018 financials that Pure Storage is planning to unveil new density and performance enhancements to its all-flash storage technology.

"We sold out in our first week of sales so we have now asked our supply chain to increase the inventory for the rest of the quarter and the fiscal year," said HPE Storage Division General Manager Milan Shetti.

The enhancements aim to make it easier for partners to manage and automate customers' Hitachi and non-Hitachi storage infrastructures with predictive analytics that provide advance notice of issues or capacity limits.

NetApp's Data Fabric platform, which offers a consistent way to manage and migrate data across on-premises, hybrid cloud and public cloud environments, gets a big boost with the new Google Cloud Platform agreement.

HPE has launched what it is calling its Store More Guarantee with a pledge to "store more raw terabyte of storage" than any competitor. HPE says if it is not able to meet the storage efficiency of any competitor it will provide "incremental storage for free" to customers.

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"StorageCraft gives me the peace of mind that my customers' data is safe," says Dr. Greg Baker, president of CMA Technology. CMA helps its customers reduce downtime and protect their data through its partnership with StorageCraft.

'We think we've got the best platform that we want to release, but we're not first and we've got to run fast, and we've got to convince the customers in the market in what we believe, which is that our platform's the best,' Sakac tells CRN.

With Rubrik Polaris, Rubrik hopes to attract third-party developers to write apps to provide management, compliance, and governance services across multi-cloud data backed up and archived on its platform.

Fourteen of the 24 publicly held channel companies on our watch list saw the price of their stock increase in the first quarter of 2018 while 10 recorded stock price declines. Take a look at who were the winners and who were the losers.

Ingram Micro executive vice president and Americas group president Paul Bay says rather than focus on technology and its delivery, Ingram Micro today is all about the business outcome the channel needs to deliver.